On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Giulio Troccoli < giulio.trocc...@mediatelgroup.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On 05/08/11 14:18, Mark Phippard wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Giulio Troccoli <giulio.troccoli@** >> mediatelgroup.co.uk <giulio.trocc...@mediatelgroup.co.uk> <mailto: >> giulio.troccoli@**mediatelgroup.co.uk<giulio.trocc...@mediatelgroup.co.uk>>> >> wrote: >> >> I'm working on a plan to upgrade our server from 1.4.6 to 1.6.17. >> >> We have 75 repositories, with an average size of 30MB. They're not >> big, I agree, but I wonder if anyone has any tip on how to >> estimate how long the "svnadmin upgrade" command will take. I >> mean, will it be a matter or minutes or hours? >> >> >> svnadmin upgrade runs in literally a few milliseconds. All it does is >> change the format number of the repository. If you want to fully move to >> all of the new repository features in 1.6 you have to do dump/load which >> will take longer. >> > > Wouldn't svnadmin upgrade give me the exact same thing as a dump/load > cycle? If not, what would be different? svnadmin upgrade bumps the repository format number which allows certain new features to be used. But there are other things like representation-sharing that require a full dump/load to get. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
